One Year On Andrew Yang’s UBI: How a New Hampshire Family Spent Their $12,000

Chuck, Janelle and Jodie inside their home in Goffstown. They were selected to receive $12,000 by 2020 candidate Andrew Yang. (Todd Bookman/NHPR)

How would an extra $12,000 a year change your lifestyle? Your life? The centerpiece of Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign is something he dubs the Freedom Dividend: a payment of $1,000, every month, to every adult in America.

Outside of some small-scale trials, universal basic incomes like the Freedom Dividend don’t have much proof of concept.

So for 2019, Yang decided to fund a test case out of his own pocket, and selected the Fassi family of Goffstown, N.H.

After twelve months, we checked in with them to see how the money changed their habits, and even their health.

Read the rest of the story at NHPR’s website.